[78-L] Reuss was Etri was Christian

[Julian Vein]

On 21/12/13 21:37, warren moorman wrote:
> If I may join this discusssion, Eugene Hayhoe mentioned Leonard Ware, and it should be stressed that he was another whose fluent electric playing was in place well before exposure to Christian. He's also proof that the electric guitar was a more widespread development than the "southwestern school" emphasis of many narratives. George Barnes's the best proof of that, but Gibson having brought to market an electric model in '36 indicates how awareness of the instrument was already in the air by then. In that regard the electric guitar's a good example of how recordings are an imperfect denominator of history. Ever heard of Warren Clayton? He was being featured on electric guitar with Jack Wardlaw's very popular southeastern band by early 1938, but unrecorded, he's seldom included in tallies of early electric players.
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> Warren Moorman
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The question of unrecorded artists, or live recordings that weren't 
known about at the time, is another story. Jazz writers have still 
managed to get it wrong on the basis of known or knowable recordings.

      Julian Vein